Name: Strings 2020
Start: 2020-06-29T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2020-07-03T22:30:00+02:00
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Strings 2020

from Monday 29 June 2020 (14:00) to Friday 3 July 2020 (22:30)

Monday 29 June 2020
14:00 Monday 2pm
Monday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Opening Address - Mamokgethi Phakeng (UCT Vice Chancellor)

14:30 Review: First results and potential African expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope - Roger Deane (University of Pretoria)

16:00 Deriving the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ Correspondence - Rajesh Gopakumar (ICTS, Bangalore)
17:00 Monday 5pm
Monday 5pm
17:00 - 20:30
Contributions

17:00 JT gravity with defects and 3D gravity - Henry Maxfield (UC Santa Barbara)

18:00 AdS/dCFT and integrable boundary states - Charlotte Kristjansen (Niels Bohr Institute)

19:00 Social Zoom
Tuesday 30 June 2020
14:00 Tuesday 2pm
Tuesday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 String Lamppost and the Swampland - Cumrun Vafa (Harvard)

15:00 D-instanton perturbation theory - Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute)

16:00 New holographic CFTs: finding the needle in the haystack - Alexandre Belin (CERN)
17:00 Tuesday 5pm
Tuesday 5pm
17:00 - 20:00
Contributions

17:00 D-instanton Calculus in c=1 String Theory - Xi Yin (Harvard)

18:00 Simple Models of Evaporating Black Holes - Netta Engelhardt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wednesday 1 July 2020
14:00 Wednesday 2pm
Wednesday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Review: Fractons for Field Theorists and Field Theory of Fractons - Nathan Seiberg (IAS)

15:30 Anomalies of SCFTs and geometric engineering in M-theory - Ibrahima Bah (Johns Hopkins University)
17:00 Wednesday 5pm
Wednesday 5pm
17:00 - 19:00
Contributions

17:00 Taming Defects in N=4 Super-Yang-Mills - Yifan Wang (Harvard)

18:00 Higher-Group Symmetry and Applications - Clay Cordova (Chicago)
20:00
20:00 - 21:30
Contributions

20:00 Public Talk: The hidden geometry of spacetime - Shamit Kachru (Stanford)
Thursday 2 July 2020
14:00 Thursday 2pm
Thursday 2pm
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Constraints on Tree Level Gravitational Scattering - Shiraz Minwalla (TIFR)

15:00 Asymptotic symmetries and celestial CFT - Andrea Puhm (Ecole Polytechnique)

16:00 Nonperturbative Mellin Amplitudes - Joao Penedones (IPT Lausanne)
17:00 Thursday 5pm
Thursday 5pm
17:00 - 21:00
Contributions

17:00 A Mellin-Barnes Approach to Scattering in de Sitter Space - Charlotte Sleight (IAS)

18:00 Unitarity Methods in AdS/CFT - David Meltzer (Caltech)

19:00 Social Zoom / Inclusivity in String Theory
Friday 3 July 2020
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Contributions

14:00 Review: Recent progress on the black hole information paradox - Juan Maldacena (IAS)
15:30 Special Session
Special Session
15:30 - 19:00
Contributions

15:30 Holographic null infinity and the information paradox in flat space - Suvrat Raju (ICTS)

16:10 Celestial Holography - Andrew Strominger (Harvard)

16:50 The VECRO hypothesis - Samir Mathur (Ohio State)

17:30 Replica Wormholes and the Black Hole Interior - Geoff Penington (Stanford)

18:10 Comments on replica wormholes - Douglas Stanford (Stanford)
19:00 Final Session
Final Session
19:00 - 22:30
Contributions

19:00 Black Hole Information Panel Discussion - Maldacena Almheiri Engelhardt Mathur Penington Raju Stanford Strominger Marolf Perry (Moderator)

21:00 Vision: David Gross